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3 weeks ago | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
We’re drinking espresso from tulip-shaped cups on an enveloping sofa in Osanna Visconti’s new atelier-cum-apartment in Milan. Dressed head to toe in hot pink, she twirls two chains of bronze through her fingers, while singing the praises of Zara Home – it’s where the cups come from, she tells me, as she moves to puff-up a sumptuous velvet cushion. She is a woman of wide-ranging tastes. She’s just moved in, and was delighted when the home became available.
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1 month ago | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
Your eyes do not deceive you – there’s a person peeking from inside the embellishments of that tassel. The gloriously odd project is the brainchild of Penny Bendall, founder and CEO of The Creative Dimension Trust (TCDT), a charity that looks to enable young people, primarily from underserved backgrounds, to learn fine hand skills from leading global specialists, to inspire future careers.
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2 months ago | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
Hands are one of the most repeated images in art history. From prehistoric prints found on rock formations; the unfurling, divine-spark digits on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling; the extended index in James Montgomery Flagg’s World War I recruitment poster; the cracking joints of Henry Moore’s drawings; the expressive gestures of the 1980s Harlem ballroom scene. An artistic movement can’t conclude without a new artist adding their handiwork.
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2 months ago | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
From the life-size reimagining of a column from a historic colonnade in the 12th-century Qutub Minar complex in Delhi, to a contemporary interpretation of the felling of 6,700 ancient trees in Hanoi, the sources of inspiration behind the nominated works at this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize are as mind-bogglingly wide-ranging as ever.
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2 months ago | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
Beata Heuman’s joyful style might look effortless, but copycats would tell you its harder than it looks to achieve her fun-filled and expansive interiors. Thessaly La Force described her wide-ranging references in the October 2024 issue of WoI as ‘often toggling between an old-world sensibility and a new-world confidence’, and as Emily Tobin put it, ‘the fanciful and fantastical are serious business for Beata’.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
Nowadays, eels on the Norfolk Broads, which are critically endangered, are gladly only caught for the purpose of being counted. But there were times where these mysterious, nocturnal, backward-swimming salt-slickers were caught in their thousands, collected in big rubber tubs, bought by eel buyers and shipped off to Amsterdam or Billingsgate. This kept eel-catchers booked and busy from the Medieval period right through to the late 20th century.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
For those who’ve visited the 600 square metre Chelsea Harbour showhouse, which seems to descend miraculously from space in a matter of days on Design Avenue in Chelsea Harbour over summer, moving from room to room is like walking through the pages of a magazine. Dizzyingly, guests enter the fully embodied worlds of their favourite designers, who often use their WowHouse room as a chance to experiment, showcasing their most daring and exceptional new works and ideas.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
Southern California is experiencing the most devastating wildfires in its history, with damage expected to continue ravaging property on Tuesday 14 January, given the forecasts of stronger dry Santa Ana winds. At least 24 people are known to have died so far. The BBC has reported that around 105,000 residents remain under mandatory evacuation orders, with a further 87,000 under evacuation warning.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
Last year was a big one for the Royal Opera House. Taylor Swift-like, it shed its old identity and entered a sparkling new era. Over the summer of 2024, the parent company changed its name to the Royal Ballet and Opera, thus putting its ballet arm front and centre, as well as announcing an ambitious new ballet programme. The new title sees the two companies whose home is the Royal Opera House unite in what chief executive Alex Beard described at the time as ‘a massively overdue change’.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
worldofinteriors.com | Elly Parsons
After growing up on a farm in Worcestershire in the Midlands, flamboyant flower artist Harriet Parry was drawn to southeast London in her 20s out of love for its plentiful green spaces – and, indeed, for love itself. ‘I had boyfriends here,’ she says. She stayed, they didn’t. In lost love’s place, a cast of local characters gravitated towards Harriet’s magnetic joie de vivre like magpies to silver.
